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wake-up

wake-up is the alternative form of wakeup.

Meaning of wakeup

Noun

wakeup (plural wakeups)

  1. An act or instance of waking up.
  2. An act or instance of being awakened; a wake-up call.
    • Give me a wakeup around six, will you?
  3. Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.

Forms of wake-up

pluralwake-ups

Phrases with wake-up

Questions about wake-up

What is wake-up the alternative form of?
Wake-up is the alternative form of wakeup.

Words near wake-up in the dictionary

  1. wake-overs
  2. wake-robin
  3. wake-robins
  4. wake-sleep algorithm
  5. wake-sleep algorithms
  6. wake-up
  7. wake-up call
  8. wake-up calls
  9. wake-ups
  10. wakeable
  11. wakeaday

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wake-up (page history and authors); wakeup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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